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with an implement called Gooroo (Drill plough), containing 

 three teeth, and drawn by a pair of bullocks. But in sowing Cot- 

 ton and corraloo together, the former is sown in the drill made 

 by the middle tooth of the drill, and the corraloo on either 

 side ; making one row of Cotton for every two lines of cor- 

 raloo. When Cotton is sown alone, the middle drill is left 

 unfilled, and the two outer ones are alone sown. The 

 usual time for the cultivation of Cotton with corraloo is 

 about the month of September, and for Cotton alone about 

 fifteen or twenty days afterwards. The plants are two or 

 three inches apart in the same row ; but the rows are, as 

 before said, one and a half to two feet from each other. The 

 amount of labour bestowed upon weeding during growing 

 time is as follows. When the Cotton and corraloo crops 

 are of one month's growth, two implements (Hoes) called 

 " Yadagoontakah", drawn with a bullock and a driver each, 

 are employed for weeding on two occasions, once in twelve 

 days. After this has been done, another description of im- 

 plement, called " Juntalagoontakah", three in number, with 

 a pair of bullocks and three drivers, is employed on two 

 occasions once in ten days. The extent of land which may be 

 weeded from nine o'clock in the morning up to the evening, 

 would not be more than four acres ; and the amount of 

 labour bestowed upon weeding four times the above quan- 

 tity of land, may be estimated at Rupees 2J or 4s. 6d. But 

 where Cotton alone is sown without corraloo, the weed is 

 hoed after one month's growth of the crop, twice at twelve 

 days' interval by the " Pillagoontaka", with a pair of 

 bullocks and two drivers, at a cost of eight annas per day, 

 or one rupee for the two occasions they are employed. The 

 average extent of land weeded in a day is four acres. The 

 flowering time is generally two months after sowing, and 

 the crop comes to maturity three months after flowering or 

 five months after sowing. The Cotton is picked on three 

 occasions in the month. It is in the second time that the 



